<TITLE>15. Par 188-198</TITLE>L-188   Would you, have I got time just for a... [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] If I hurry real quick on... some text here, I want you to read now, or mark down, or whatever you wish to do. The first one is found in the Book of Numbers, 21:5 to 19, and we want to--to read this.
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our souls loatheth this light bread, Angels' food.
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the Lord...
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said,...

L-189 Confession! Watch, "We have sinned!" See, that's the first thing for healing, confession first.
... We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he may take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: that it shall be, come--come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

L-190   Now, also, I wish to read a Scripture out of Zechariah, the 12th chapter, the 10th verse.
And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

L-191 Now for a text, I'm going to take this: Look Away To Jesus. Look away from the world, to Jesus. Moses made the serpent; and here the prophet, later, was speaking of it, what would happen, looking away to--to Jesus.

L-192 The Bible said, in Isaiah 45:22. We find that God said, "Look unto Me, all the ends of the earth." And now when the earth has come to its end, or the system of the earth has come to its ends, let the people look unto Him.

L-193   Now you might say, "We have heard this, generation after generation. We've heard this for a long time." That is true, and it's been preached for a long time. Many ministers has took this same text, thousands of them.

L-194 But here is the thing I want to ask you, tonight, for these next few minutes. But when you look, the question is--is, what do you see when you look? What do you see when you do look? That only depends on what you're looking for. See? Now He said, "Look unto Me, all the ends of the earth." Moses lifted the serpent up, and, ever who looked, got healed. Now, it depends on what you're looking for.

L-195   I have seen people come into the meetings, in this last day, could only be able to sit in the meeting for just about one or two minutes. That's all they could stand. See, they couldn't stand it.

L-196 I'll never forget, I hope this don't reflect on anybody from Iowa, when I had the meeting at Waterloo.

L-197 Brother Lee Vayle, he was here this morning. I don't know whether he's here tonight or not. Are you here, Lee? He was here this morning. Yes, back over in the recording, back here. All right.

L-198   Brother Lee and I done everything we could. And give the ministerial association a breakfast, free, just to come down and speak to them. Brother Lee Vayle, of course, is a scholar and--and a Doctor of Divinity, that he really earned his degree. And so I tried to get him to speak before these Lutheran, Presbyterians, and so forth, but he said, "No, they're looking to you to do it."


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